Florentijn Hofman hat wieder zugeschlagen: Nach dem Riesen-Bunny im niederländischen Nijmegen hat er nun im schwedischen Örebro ein neues, gelbes Kaninchen installiert. “Stor Gul Kanin: The Big Yellow Rabbit is a temporary 13 meter high sculpture. It’s a enlarged cuddle toy made out of swedish products thrown against the statue of Engelbrekt.” Eine Arbeit im Rahmen der OpenArt Biennale, einer Gruppenausstellung für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum mit rund 50 internationalen Künstlern (noch bis 11. September). Mit dabei ist u.a. auch Mark Jenkins mit einer neuen Skulpturenreihe: “This project (“Paint Your City“) is about being with people in the city. First working with them on creating the work and having them be part of the creative process. Working together to make body casts of each other and installing the figures on the street to interact with the people of the city and the architecture in a way to turn the city into a sort of stage. And painting the city white to show it as a blank canvas to be used for artistic expression.”)

Flip-Flop-Skulptur von Florentijn Hofman: “The Fat Monkey is a site specific work which was created out of the question from the Pixelshow to make a sculpture during their conference in 2010. Made with the help of local students and made from the brazilian icon; the flip flop which obviously works as one of the 10.000 pixels. The fat monkey is a work in the series Obeastitas.” Via

* Polaroid ist tot, “The Impossible Project” lebt! “Polaroid may have stopped production of its analogue instant film last summer, but such is the strength of the product’s fan base that some have decided they won’t take “no” for an answer. Specifically, a group of aficionados in the Netherlands has bought an old Polaroid factory and plans to bring the technology back into production later this year.”

* The power of a logo in public space: Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman created fake logo wraps for his vehicle, mimicking the look of vans driven by couriers for TNT and DHL. Via

“Canard de bain”, 2007: Das neueste Projekt, ein riesiges, aufblasbares Badeentchen. Zur Kunstausstellung “Estuaire 2007” in Nantes: “A yellow dot is looming on the horizon and coming toward the banks. His arrival causes big gatherings and astonishment. “The Duck” does not have any border, it does not discriminate between people and does not convey any political message. He only represents a friendly figure shining forth with its bright yellow, all along its journeys to calm down the world tensions.”

“Musk Rat”, 2004: “In 2004, Kunstgebouw foundation and the province of Zuid-Holland wanted a temporary sculpture come mascot for the village of Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, located at the very lowest point in Holland (6,86 meters below sea level). It is amazing how water is being controlled here by waterworks and dykes, so this fact was taken as a starting point. It resulted in a giant alter ego of the musk rat, also to show the size of the problem the animal is said to cause. The musk rat (ondatra zibethicus) supposedly is the biggest threat to dykes because of its digging into them and therefor the ‘most wanted’ animal in The Netherlands.”

“Signpost 5″, 2006: “For the fifth anniversary of the Schiermonnikoog International Chamber Music Festival, I came up with a concept of grand pianos washed upon the shore. The refer to stranded cargo and ditto whales. To be salvaged or saved; in any case to be wondered and surprised about. To one person it’s of value beyond measure, the other looks upon it as being just derelict wood. Islanders come and gather, to admire, to salvage or to save and, thus, see their beach again in a whole new perspective.”

“Beukelsblue”, 2004-2006: “The borough of Delfshaven, Rotterdam, asked me to come up with a plan for a block of derelict buildings, which will eventually be demolished. The agreement with the neighbourhood is that the block will remain blue as long as there isn’t a new plan for the area. This was once one of the most unseen blocks of houses in Rotterdam, and by applying a layer of only 2 micron of blue paint onto it, it became Rotterdam’s most photographed one”